Posts Tagged ‘Thought for the Day’

From Saturday's Daily Telegraph One of the most disgusting serial killers in American history is standing trial in Philadelphia at the moment – and, since it’s happening in the US, where reporting...
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This morning, for perhaps literally the first time in its history, Thought for the Day was worth listening to. The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, chuntered on for a couple of minutes about Children in Need,...
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The brilliant theologian Dr Giles Fraser came on Thought for the Day this morning to tell us that St Augustine knew a lot about the complicated and conflicting motives present in all our hearts. Frase...
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I was in the middle of arranging the order of service for the funeral of a friend when I was interrupted by something gormless on Thought for the Day by Canon Angela Tilby who reminded us that we are ...
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The genial Today presenter Evan Davis says he would like to hear “serious and spiritually-minded secularists” on Thought for the Day. But, with one or two distinguished exceptions, these are the o...
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My colleague Guy Stagg wrote yesterday to suggest that having secular thinkers on the Today programme's Thought for the Day will "expose the loneliness of atheism". I want to respond, because while I ...
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I heard a really sensible Thought for the Day this morning. It was the Rev Angela Tilby and she was talking about this week's horrific report from the health service ombudsman on care of the elderly. ...
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Nigel Lawson once remarked that "the NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion". Sure enough, this morning's Thought for the Day, by the Bishop of Liverpool, was sermon in favour of Brit...
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The first Thought for the Day message by a Pope was what C S Lewis would have called "mere Christianity" – a Christmas Eve reminder of who Jesus was and why he was born, presented without any of the...
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The BBC has just announced that Pope Benedict is to present Thought for the Day on the Christmas Eve Today programme (Radio Four). It'll be on at about quarter to eight. This is a first, as according ...
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